Services and Facilities
  Services & Facilities Available to Patients
 

Pharmacy Services

 
  Our pharmacy services utilizes a Formulary System designed to promote safe, intelligent and effective therapy in the hospital. The Formulary System provides for the procuring, prescribing, dispensing and administering of drugs under their generic name or International Non-Proprietary Names (INN). Under this system, the Pharmacist can dispense any brand of the same generic name, strength and dosage form (pharmaceutical equivalents) approved by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee (PTC) for stocking in the Pharmacy.

The PTC is a composite of physicians representing various medical disciplines, the Pharmacy Department Head, the Nursing Service Directress, the Medical Director and the Administrator. It serves as the official link between the medical staff and the Pharmacy. Its primary objective is to achieve optimal patient care and safety through rational drug therapy.

The pharmacy services for in-patients and out patients is available 24hours a day, seven days a week.
 
  Admission, Information and Communication  
  The communication system that is servicing the whole hospital system has the capability of forty (40) trunklines for outside calls and two hundred (200) local lines for in-house calls.  
  Advanced Rehabcare and Sports Medicine Centre  
  Cebu Cancer Institute  
  Cebu Heart Institute  
  Clinical Laboratory  
  The following are the sections of the Clinical Laboratory:
a. Hematology
b. Blood Bank
c. Immunology/Serology
d. Clinical Chemistry
e. Clinical Microscopy
f. Microbiology
g. Anatomic Pathology
 
  Clinical Pastoral Care Services  
  Services offered to Patients, family and caregivers:
a. Visitation
b. Counseling
c. Reception of the Sacraments
d. Support in Bereavement
e. Seminar and updates for Caregivers
 
  Delivery Room  
  With four (4) delivery room suites, five (5) DR tables, labor room with ten (10) beds and (2) fetal monitors; two operating rooms for cesarean section; IE room; recovery Room; Emergency Cart with "E" drugs, etc
 
  Emergency Room  
  It is fully airconditioned with 9 cubicles, each separated from one another with an
enclosure; has a nurses' station; 2 minor surgical rooms; piped in gases and suction; fully equipped to handle all emergencies.
 
  Endoscopy  
  The services offered:
       - Fibroptic Broachoscopy
       - Video Esophagogastroduodeoscopy
       - Video Colonoscopy
       - Flexible Proctosigmoidoscopy.
It has the following Ancillary procedures:
       - Gastric and Colonic Biopsy
       - Esophagal Biopsy
       - Endoloop Variceal Ligation
       - Sclerotherapy
       - Polypectomy
       - H. Pyloric Detection
       - Rectal Imprint
       - Foreign Body Retrieval
 
  Engineering and Maintenance  
  a.  Biomedical Engineering-Preventive Maintenance
b.  Electrical Engineering
c.  Civil Engineering
d.  Plumbing
e.  Carpentry
f.   Painting
g.  Upholstery
h.  Mechanical works - generator; two (2) elevators
i.   Refrigeration and air-conditioning
j.   Utilities - Reversible pumps 7.5 HP; (2) 2 HP; Oxygen Manifold
     and Main Suction Pumps; Pest Control and Termite Control;
     Waste Management; Water purification (chlorination)
k.  Waste Management
l.   Disaster Management
m. Fire and Safety Management
 
  Finance Management and Services  
  Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivables
Asset Control
Billing
Bookeeping
Computerized Cashiering
Internal Audit
Payroll
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Medicare)
 
  Kidney Service  
  ICU Complex  
          a. Medical ICU  
  With ten (10) beds, equipped with invasive Monitoring System with Central Monitors; piped-in gases and suction; one on one staffing. The facilities are the following: Dressing Room for Consultants and Staff; Conference Room; lounge for relatives; nurses’ station, E Cart; defibrillator, ambu bags, volume respirators, syringe pumps and Emergency cart with the “E” drugs, IV fluids, plasma expanders, etc.  
          b. Pediatric ICU  
  With Five (5) beds equipped with monitors with invasive monitoring system; piped in gases and suction; defibrillator; pediatric volume respirator, ambu bags, Emergency cart with “E” drugs, etc.; with a dressing room, nurses station and lounge for doctors and personnel.  
          c. Surgical ICU  
  With four (4) beds, equipped with Invasive Cardiac Monitors, Defibrillator with external paddle; piped in gases and suction; ventilator; Emergency Cart with “E” drugs.  
          d. Neonatal ICU  
  With four (4) beds and equipped with radiant warmers, incubators, syringe pumps, infusion pumps, pulse oximeters, etc.  
  Linen and Laundry  
  The Linen and Laundry department is equipped with modern technology. The following machines are in place: two (2) washcators, two (2) dryers, one (1) roller ironing machine and a dumbwaiter to ferry the laundry to the drying area.  
  Marketing  
 

Patients who wish to raise their feedback about the services of the hospital can be accommodated in this department.

 
  Medical Imaging Center  
  Performs imaging procedures such as X-ray, CT Scan, MRI, Ultrasound and also interventional procedures; Aside from these, the CT Scan could perform procedures that require spiral imaging; the Ultrasound can do peripheral vascular imaging and the Mammography can do diagnostic and biopsy procedures.  
  Medical Records  
 
Safekeeps the following data:
a. Terminal Digit System
b. Physicians Index
c. Disease Index
d. Operations' Index
e. Patients' Index
 
  Motorpool and Ambulance Service  
  There are drivers in every shift and on call, to provide a twenty - four hour (24) round the clock service. The ambulance is well equipped and backed with a medical team that provides quality care while the patient is in transit.  
  Nuclear Medicine  
  Nursing Units  
  There are nine (9) nursing stations with facilities for the accommodation of all types of in-patients with modifications for pediatrics, maternity, communicable and psychiatric services, equipped with the following basic amenities:
 
  1. Nurses' station
2. Medicine preparation area with sink and refrigerator; with locked Emergency Carts with "E" medicines, supplies, ambu bags (pedia & adult), laryngoscopes and other "E" necessities.
3. Utility room
4. Linen storage cabinet
5. Stretcher/wheelchair storage
6. Patients' rooms air-conditioned or with electric fans, with standard hospital beds, bedside table, overbed table, chairs, footstool, IV stands, headlights, piped-in gases and suction, TV, telephone, refrigerator and lockers or closet for private rooms, with toilet and bath rooms.
 
  The 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors are equipped with piped-in Oxygen, suction apparatus.  
  Nutrition Center  
  CLINICAL SERVICES:
a. Diet Planning
b. Diet Checking
c. Diet Counseling
d. Diet Calculation
e. Menu Planning
f.  Cooking
g. Special Therapeutic Diets
h. Blenderized Feeding
 
  Operating Room
The Operating Room has eight (8) operating suites and one is dedicated for cardiovascular surgery. It is equipped with a modern heart lung machine, cell saver, state of the art anesthesia machine, blood gas machine, and all the accessories for a close-heart and open-heart surgeries. It has a 4-bed recovery room equipped with invasive monitoring systems.
 
  Out-Patient Department  
  It is arranged according to departments. It includes among others, Cardiology and Rehydration, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, HMO Management Center.  
  Pulmonary
The following are the services offered in the Pulmonary Department:
 
 
  - Incentive Spirometry and Pulmonary Function Test
- Volume respirator adult and pedia
- Pressure ventilators, nebulizers – aerosol therapy
- IPPB
- Pulse oximeter
- Thoracic pump
 
  Recovery Room  
  With four (4) beds, equipped with piped in gases and suction; BP apparatus, cardiac monitors with invasive cardiac monitoring system; pulse oximeters; E-Cart and Nurses’ station.  
  Security Services  
  An agency is being contracted to provide a 24/7 Security Service. Twenty five (25) guards are being deployed and are working in a 12-hour shift.  
  Social Services  
 

They screen and recommend qualified patients to avail of charity services of the hospital. They also have several activities/programs such as:
a. Outreach Programs
       - Medical & Surgical Missions

       - Community Based Health Care Programs

 
         - "Operation Tuli"  
         - Natural Family Planning Seminar  
         - Weighing, Child Supplemental Feeding and Deworming  
         - BEC and Holy Mass  
         - Basic Health Tips and Illness Prevention Lectures  
         - Free Clinic  
  b. Referral and linkage with existing GOs' or NGOs (such as Congressman Del Mar,     the Fanciscan Sisters, DSWD-Capitol, Freeman Foundation)
c. Networking with PCSO and other agencies